Sharon Lutheran Church and Cemetery | |
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Location | West of Ceres on State Route 42, near Ceres, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 37°00′58″N 81°20′56″W / 37.01611°N 81.34889°W |
Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
Built | 1817, 1883 |
NRHP reference No. | 79003030 [1] |
VLR No. | 010-0040 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | February 28, 1979 |
Designated VLR | June 21, 1978 [2] |
Sharon Lutheran Church and Cemetery is a historic Lutheran church and cemetery located near Ceres, Bland County, Virginia. The church was built in 1883, and is a one-story, frame church, four bays long, with round-arched, stained-glass windows and a gable roof. It features a projecting square tower with a bell-cast pyramidal roof and cross finial on the entrance facade. The adjacent cemetery was established in 1817, and includes a collection of rare Germanic gravestones which are stylistically related to those found in the outlying churches of the Wythe County German settlements. [3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1]